A true sports hero
Highly recommended reading, in light of the five-year 9/11 anniversary: Sports Illustrated's superb cover story, in the current issue, on Pat Tillman.
So moved was Tillman after the terrorist attacks, the star player with the NFL's Arizona Cardinals walked away from pro football to enlist in the Army and serve in Afghanistan.
Tragically, Tillman died from what had been misreported as an enemy ambush, but what turned out to be friendly fire.
But it's an amazing, touching, upflifting story nevertheless.
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